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Here you can access data and intelligence relating to Education. The Education theme covers attainment, pupil absence and attendance, and take up of Higher Education.

Key education statistics

The way in which GCSE exams are graded is changing, starting with English and Maths in 2017. The new GCSEs will have a new grading scale from 9 (the highest) to 1, which replace the old A* to G grades. The Department for Education have produced two GCSE grading factsheets which explain the changes in more detail.

In 2016

Accessing education data

Local level data Education data can be access from the Intelligence Hub, where you can view and download the data on a map and a chart.